January 2012
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“1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he’s ever heard of onto C to...”
– One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Jan 24th
June 2011
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May 2011
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“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together...”
– Apple begins world’s flimsiest defense in “App Store” trademark dispute
May 20th
April 2011
3 posts
xkcd: Null Hypothesis →
who needs it anyway?
Apr 30th
xkcd: Significant →
Statistics at work
Apr 14th
PartiallyClips - Manager →
the chain of knowledge
Apr 11th
January 2011
4 posts
“By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the...”
– Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Jan 14th
“When parents think their children have been given a drink containing sugar (even...”
– Festive medical myths — Vreeman and Carroll 337 — bmj.com
Jan 14th
Super PSTW Action RPG →
das Spiel zu Every RPG Ever: The Flowchart
Jan 14th
“While Git is the trendy thing right now, perhaps some day you will come across a...”
– Too Smart for Git
Jan 14th
December 2010
7 posts
“Lukaschenka gewann die Wahl mit 82,6 Prozent der Stimmen [..]. Angeblich hatte...”
– Aljaksandr Lukaschenka – Wikipedia — sicher fälsche ich die Wahlen - aber nur nach unten!!!
Dec 20th
“Produktinformation * Taschenbuch: […} Verlag: Corgi (31. Dezember 2035)”
– Good Omens: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman —- that’s planning ahead?!? Gutes Buch btw
Dec 20th
Dec 18th
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Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break (by Kyle Ruddick) —- music video art
Dec 18th
“You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty...”
– Suggestion of John von Neumann to Shannon regarding the name of his new uncertainty function.
Dec 13th
“You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me...”
– John von Neumann, 1948, Timeline of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia
Dec 13th
“Everything went wrong when I accidentally kicked Jesus in the balls.”
– Crap Shoot: The You Testament | PC Gamer —— Extremely insane doesn’t begin to describe this game…
Dec 9th
November 2010
6 posts
“Bayernkurier: Die Grünen […]. Wie erklären Sie sich den Zuspruch für so...”
– BAYERNKURIER — Und das ist wirklich nicht die CSU-Parteizeitschrift?
Nov 22nd
“Unripened persimmons contain the soluble tannin shibuol, which, upon contact...”
– Persimmon - Wikipedia —- Den Magen mit unreifer Parsimon Frucht verklebt? Der Arzt empfiehlt Coca-Cola^^
Nov 17th
Nov 11th
“[Meg] Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998...”
– Meg Whitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nov 11th
“1999 willigte Jasmuheen ein, sich einer medizinisch begleiteten Testwoche des...”
– Jasmuheen – Wikipedia
Nov 11th
“Die Phillips-Kurve, welche mit der keynesianischen Wirtschaftstheorie in...”
– Stagflation – Wikipedia — Realität vs. Theorie…
Nov 11th
October 2010
2 posts
“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of...”
– John von Neumann — Pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oct 24th
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September 2010
7 posts
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“These guys had to go in and fix the fibre while facing gunshots “So [the]...”
– US hunters shoot down Google fibre - Telco/ISP - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
Sep 21st
“It was getting kinda cold in here anyway.”
– Dropbox - Tour - Online backup
Sep 13th
xkcd: Password Reuse →
hilarious!
Sep 13th
“AT&T said Tuesday that any Net neutrality plan restricting its ability to...”
– AT&T: Net rules must allow ‘paid prioritization’ | Politics and Law - CNET News —- look, it’s opposite day again!
Sep 2nd
July 2010
3 posts
“Ein moderner und vernünftiger Jugendschutz nimmt den Jugendlichen als Subjekt...”
– Expertise “Pornografie und Jugend – Jugend und Pornografie”
Jul 26th
Willow Garage: Hol mir mal'n Bier, Roboter! -... →
Every robot should be able to “Beer Me!”!
Jul 10th
“BDD is a second-generation, outside-in, pull- based, multiple-stakeholder,...”
– Behavior Driven Development - Wikipedia — Thats not a definition, thats a buzzword-laden advert!
Jul 1st
June 2010
8 posts
“Unsere Lock-Oma ist ein voller Erfolg. Die Diebstahlsdelikte in Gouda sind...”
– Amsterdam: “Lock-Juden” gegen Antisemiten | Frankfurter Rundschau - Politik
Jun 24th
“Despite ridiculous, order of magnitude increases in computing power over the...”
– Coding Horror: Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition?
Jun 23rd
“At the very impressionable age of four, my son loved Grand Theft Auto. More...”
– My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto
Jun 22nd
“We used to quip that “password” is the most common password. Now...”
– MySpace Passwords Aren’t So Dumb
Jun 19th
“Man isn’t a noble savage, he’s an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal,...”
– Stanley Kubrick (via qerub)
Jun 19th
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xkcd: Interdisciplinary →
It’s interdisciplinary, so it must be true!
Jun 18th
“500 Internal Server Error Leider ist etwas schiefgegangen. Eine...”
– 500 Internal Server Error — Youtube’s creative error message
Jun 9th
“Adderall Receives Honorary Degree From Harvard”
– Adderall Receives Honorary Degree From Harvard | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Jun 6th
May 2010
13 posts
“Fingerspitzengefühl” - er sagt das Wort auf Deutsch - “ist mein...”
– Porträt Cory Doctorow: Der Daniel Düsentrieb des Digitalzeitalters - S.2 - Kultur | STERN.DE
May 25th
Sonderermittler Sonneborn →
“Entschuldigung, wollen sie das wirklich sagen?” beim Pharmareferenten
May 21st
“Whether she is allowed to remain in her religious order, Erich says that is up...”
– Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion : NPR —- humour by nomenclature?
May 20th
“Dieser Computerersatz namens iPad ist so hermetisch abgeriegelt, dass die DDR...”
– Sixtus vs. Lobo - iPad
May 17th
“Malamanteau A word defined to infuriate Wikipedia editors”
– Urban Dictionary: malamanteau
May 13th
“Don’t be a dick.”
– Don’t be a dick - Wikipedia Meta-Wiki
May 13th
“It’s fine for adults to occasionally put down their machine guns and...”
– Exploration, Puzzle-Solving Teaches Kids Non-Violence, Alarmed Parents Say | The First-Person Observer
May 12th